That was fun. I preferred the armor map, but that infantry map was completely new to me (looked good, though). Some of those maps are death from every which way until you learn all the hiding spots. I also need to figure out where to get the "unlocked" weapons. It's hard going up against a Sturmgewehr '44 when you have a bolt action rifle...

I thought we did well holding a section of a field in armor as well. As I suspected, we did so well many of our opponents dropped off the server so a few of us volunteered to switch over to even things up.

Unfortunately, all the "popular" maps when the game first came out (Koenigsplatz, Stalingradkessel) aren't really played anymore, and even vanilla Arad is a rarity. If we get a chance, I'd like to try the same thing on Arad, as in just hold a CP with armor as long as we can. BTW, best Arad mod I've found was all Panthers vs. all IS-2s. Brutal, but exciting.

I also change my opinion of the Tiger. It has the largest of the German guns (88 mm), but the turret traverse speed is wicked slow. I played around with it a bit this weekend and it's really about the only tank where I do play better with someone riding with me. It's almost unstoppable if you keep yourself angled towards your opponent and let the gunner put 88s into him. At the end tonight the guy in my turret was taking out tank after tank until we were finally destroyed by Soviet artillery. Damn artillery...

Another thing we could try is find an empty server (there are tons!) and "vote" for a map change and we can hold armor practice. I really think armor is ROs strongpoint. For instance, both the Panzer IV and Panzer V (Panther) have 75 mm guns, but the Panther has a longer barrel. This gives it a higher muzzle velocity and you can really notice the difference at range (the Panther round doesn't drop much but the Pz IV round does).

Anyway, if this is something we're really interested in doing I'm sure we can empty a server by playing together effectively and demoralizing our opponents...

Then we can work on becoming intimidating as infantry. That will probably require a lot more work though, heh.

Let's try it again next Monday, and hopefully I can stay longer since I'm off work that night.